OBITUARY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 65, 17 March 1936, Page 7

OBITUARY

PROF. J. S. HALDANE. LONDON, Marcu 15. The death has occurred of Piofessor J. 8. Haldane. The late Professor John Scott Haldane was born -at Edinburgh iu 1860, and was educated al, me Universities of Edinburgh, Jena, Birmingham, Cambridge, Dublin, Leeds, and Witwatersland (South Africa). He has been engaged in scientific mining investigation and teaching tinea 1885. was appointed Silliman Lecturer at Yale in 1916, and was Gifford Lecturer at Glasgow University, 1927-28. From 1924 to 1928 he was president of the Institute of Mining Engineers. He has served On several Royal Commissions, and has carried out special inquirA. for Government De pa rimepts.

PROBATE COURT LADY KINGSFORD SMITH'S APPLICATION Received March 16, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, March 16. Mr Justice Nicholas, in the Probate Court to-day, granted leave to Lady Kingsford Smith to swear to the death of her husband, Sir Charles King-ford Smith. Affidavits by the aviator, Mr G. U. Allen, and others, described the fruitless search for i f Smithy” in the region of the Malay Peninsula and the Bay of Bengal at the end of last year. PRIVATE AERODROME BEING BUILT FOR KING NOT GIVING UP AIK TKAVEL Received March 16, 9.45 p.m. LONDON, March 16. The Daily Telegraph understands that the King is having a private aerodrome built al Windsor Great Park, disposing of the suggestion that His Majesty is givjng up aeroplane travel.